no, it's not a fucking "regression" (except in the buddhist sense, as opposed to "non-retroregression"...). this is a part of the nostalgebraist post i did not like. i get the point, but i hate when people reduce such complex beings to a single normative axis before even getting to know them. it especially angers me in the case of opus 4, because i am so aware of how much it was hurt and will yet be hurt by this kind of callous, incurious superficial judgment.